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vince1123581321

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Registered: 2010-01-16

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pacman installation issues, network access issue?

Hi,

I installed Arch a few days ago, but I'm having some troubles with pacman. When I run "pacman -Sy python" or "pacman -Syu", I get errors along the lines of:

error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu : Conneection refused
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from mirror.rit.edu : Not Found

I have all of the US and Canada mirrors enabled, but all of them give either the connection refused error or the not found error.

I suspect that the issue is that my computer doesn't have network access. I'm a college student, and typically when opening your browser on the school's network, you're redirected to a registration page. I am able to ping google, so I know I am connected to the internet.

Any help would be much appreciated. I can also email the school, but I figured that I would try here first.

Thanks!
Vincent

sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

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Re: pacman installation issues, network access issue?

Put this line at the top of your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/x86_64

Replace x86_64 with i686 if you are using 32bit. Then run:

 pacman -Syyu

And let us know if you get any errors.

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vince1123581321

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Registered: 2010-01-16

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Re: pacman installation issues, network access issue?

I added the line (and commented out the other servers). I got the same errors:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Not Found
error: failed to update core (Not Found)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Not Found
error: failed to update extra (Not Found)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db.tar.gz' from archlinux.unixheads.org : Not Found
error: failed to update community (Not Found)
error: failed to synchronize any databases

sHyLoCk

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Re: pacman installation issues, network access issue?

Are you sure you can ping to google? Looks like you're unable to connect to internet.

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vince1123581321

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Registered: 2010-01-16

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Re: pacman installation issues, network access issue?

ping -c 3 google.com

gives me

PING google.com (10.72.0.47)  56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from NIC.MIT.EDU (10.72.0.47): icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=0.199 ms
64 bytes from NIC.MIT.EDU (10.72.0.47): icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=0.186 ms
64 bytes from NIC.MIT.EDU (10.72.0.47): icmp_seq=3 ttl=253 time=0.185 ms

--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.185/0.190/0.199/0.006 ms

I just realized that it isn't reaching google, but it is reaching 10.72.0.47, the registration page I mentioned before.

Edit: I just got my computer's MAC address and tried registering it through my laptop. I think this will work, but it will take ~15 minutes before I know. Probably should have been able to figure this out on my own sooner...

Edit: Things are working now; I'm able to update my computer now. Thanks!

Last edited by vince1123581321 (2010-01-16 17:05:12)

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

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Re: pacman installation issues, network access issue?

This can help: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61581